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'Grotesque' red carpet selfies banned at Cannes festival

Posted April 04, 2018 7:00 am

The Associated Press

PARIS (AP) - Want to take a selfie on the red carpet during the Cannes Film Festival? Well, you can't.

That's the message from top festival official Thierry Fremaux, who says red carpet-selfies will be banned at this year's star-studded event.

Violators, he said on Europe-1 radio Wednesday, won't be let in to see films.

When festival-goers take selfies as they climb the carpeted stairs to the French Riviera venue, he said everything becomes "disorganized" and the program "runs late."

But as guardian of one of the world's most glamorous cultural events, Fremaux also has aesthetic concerns: "It's not beautiful. It's grotesque. It's ridiculous .... We want to restore a bit of decency."

Fremaux also said recently that Netflix movies will be banned from competition at this year's festival, which runs May 8-19.

FILE - In this May 20, 2016 file photo, director Nicolas Winding Refn and actress Elle Fanning pose for a selfie photograph during a photo call for the film The Neon Demon at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France. Cannes Film Festival organizers are banning red carpet selfies this year, calling them grotesque and ridiculous. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File) The Associated Press

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